Non-refillable bottle.



PATENTED JUNE 2, 1903.

B. CLEMENS NON-REFILLABLB BOTTLE.

APPLIOATION'PILBD 00T.15. 1902.

N0 MODEL.

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PATENT OFFICE.

NQN-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 730,003, dated June 2, 19 3- Application filed October 15, 1902. Serial No. 127,356. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BURLEY CLEMENS, a citizen of the United-States, and a resident of Moundsville, in the county of Marshall and State of West Virginia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Non-Refillable Bottles, of which the following'isa full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to the class of bottles designated as non-refillable, andthe object of my invention is to produce a bottle which, if not literally non-refillable, will make refilling so tedious and difficult as to be unprofitable, while at the same time the parts will have such a conformation and arrangement as to enable the bottle to be manufactured by the usual methods of bottle manufacture.

To these ends my invention consists in the distinctive features hereinafter particularly described, and defined in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the upper portion of a bottle embodying my invention with the valve in position to permit a filling of the bottle. Fig. 2is a similar View showing the valve after removal of its suspension device provided to permit the filling.

. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the baffle or guard partition employed in the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and Fig. i is a plan view of a baffle or guard of slightly-modified form.

In forming a bottle in. accordance with my invention the body A of the bottle is made with a short neck portion B, whichforrns the lower portion or base-section of the bottleneck and provides a valve-chamber 10, havto. The upper portion or pouring-section B of the bottle-neck is separately formed, as is also the guard-partition O, which constitutes a retainer for a ball-valve D and a barrier to baffle any effortstoward the introduction of a wire or like instrument employed with a view to tamper with the valve D. The short base-section B of the neck, the upper pour- 5o ing-section B, and the partition 0 are brought intoposition after the valve D is in place. To unite these parts into an integral and homogeneous'whole, it is only necessary that the base-section B, for instance, be heated sufiiciently to give a proper degree of softness whereby when the parts B and O are pressed against the heated section B and the B B and the partition 0 may be heated.

The detail form of the parts is as follows The base-section B at its upper edge provides a seat at b for the partition 0, and the pouring-section B of the neck is rabbeted interiorly to produce a shoulder b that bears down upon the partition 0 at the edge. Thus the said partition'is clampedbetween the top of the base-section B of the neck and the shoulder b of the pouring-section. The pouring-section belowthe shoulder b is of a diameter'and length to encompass the partition 0 and overlap the base-section, as at b This overlapped portion is preferably tapered toward the lower edge, as at b and when the base-section is heated, as before mentioned, the said tapered lower end is worked into a union with the base-section; At the same time that portion of the partition that is seated on the upper edge of the base-section will also be pressed against and worked into a union with the base-section.

The partition 0 in Figs. 1 and 2 is shown with semicircular slots or-openings c near the edge for the outletof liquid contents of the bottle, and to guard these openings against the entrance of a wire or the like the pouring-section B at a point above the partition is contracted to extend inward and overhang said partition, as at 11 The internal diameter of this contracted or choked portion, as at b, is such as to be within any'straight line between a slot sand the mouth of the bottle-neck with a view of defeating any attempt to pass a rod or wire through a slot 0 from the mouth of the neck.

In the form shown in Fig. 4 the partition 0 is formed with peripheral ears 0 and intermediate peripheral recesses 0 When the ears 0 are secured between the base-section and the pouring-section of the bottle, as explained with respect to the partition 0, the recesses c form openings, establishing comin unication between the valve-chamber and the pouring-section in the same manner as the openings 0, previously described.

The valve-seat b flares at such an angle and is of such a size as to so receive the ball-valve D as to permit the major portion of the latter to lie below the upper edge of the seat. This arrangement is designed to make it difficult to fill the bottle by submergence, since the valve tends to wedge itself, and if the bottle be' tilted at an angle to permit an appreciable quantity of liquid to flow inward the valve will either roll tightly to its seat or the liquid, eifective over a surface equivalent to the greatest cross-sectional area of the valve, will force the latter to a seat. Above the valve-seat Z) the interior surface of the basesection flares pronouncedly outward, as at 71 toward the openings near the edge of the partition.

In carrying out my invention the valve D is secured to the end of a suspension-Wire E, which extends through an orifice c, formed centrally in the partition 0. Thus in filling the bottle the wire may be grasped by its hooked upper end 6 or be hooked over the mouth of the bottle, as indicated in Fig. 1, to hold the valve from its seat. After the filling of the bottle the wire is to be nipped off, and in order that it may be cut close to the valve the partition C is formed with a co unterbore or countersink of" around the orifice c for the accommodation of a suitable cuttingtool. The entrance of a wire or the like through the orifice c, if effected, will but press the valve to its seat.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. A non-refillable bottle having a valvechamber, an upperpouring-section, and apartition-chamber interposed between the valvechamber and the pouring-section, a partition in said partition chamber, provided with peripheral openings, said valve-chamberhaving a valve-seat and being flared near its top, said partition being of equal diameter with the neck of the bottle and resting upon the top thereof with its outer periphery flush with the outer periphery of the bottle-neck, said partition-chamber being formed by the union of the top portion of the bottle-neck and an enlarged integral portion extending downwardly from the lower end of the pouringsection and having an internal annular shoulder, and telescoping over said partition and the upper end of said bottle-neck with said shoulder resting upon the partition, and a valve in the valve-chamber, said telescoping section, partition and bottleneck being united into a homogeneousbody at their point of contact, as specified and shown.

peripheral openings, the said base-section being united to adjacent portions of the pouring-section and to the partition by a union that forms the said parts into an integral and homogeneous body, as set forth.

3. A bottle having its neck provided with a partition having peripheral openings, the said neck forming a valve-chamber below the partition and apouring-section above the par tition, said chamber and pouring-section bein g in communication at the partition through the medium of said peripheral openings, and the said pouring-section being contracted nearits lower end to overhang said peripheral openings in the partition to prevent the in set-tion of an instrument into said peripheral openings, as set forth.

4. A bottle having a valve-chamber and a flaring valve-seat therein, a ball-valve in said chamber, and a partition integral with the neck above the valve and having segmental openings near its periphery, the upper portion of the neck forming a pouring-section and being in communication with the valvechamber by means of said openings in the partition, the walls of the said valve-seat extending upwardly at a sharp angle to a point spaced apart from the partition about one half the diameter of the valve,whereby to hold said valve-seat always within the walls of said valve for the purpose specified,

5. A bottle having a valve-chamber and a flaring valve-seat therein, a ball-valve in said chamber, and a partition integral with the neck above the valve and having segmental openings near its periphery,- the upper portion of the neck forming a pouring-section and being in communication with the valve-chainher by means of said openings in the partition, the said valve-seat permitting the major portion of the valve to lie below the upper edge of the seat and the valve having a wire extending upward through an orifice in the partition, the said partition having a countersink at its orifice.

6. A bottle having a neck composed of a base-section forming a valve-chamber having a valve-seat; said chamber being flared near its top; an upper pouring-section having a rabbet forming a shoulder; a valve in said valve-chamber; a partition fixedly held between the base-section and the shoulder of the upper section and having peripheral openings to afford communication between the pouring-section and the valve-chamber; said pouring-section below its rabbetbeing of a name to thisspecification in the presence of diameter and length to telescope over the partwo subscribing witnesses. tition and base-sectionsaid telescopin secr tion being beveled inwardly to an edge t its BURLEY CLEMENS 5 lower end, as specified and for the purpose set Witnesses:

forth. L. G. BROOK,

In testimony whereof I have signed my C. HrHUNTER 

